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2020–21 Nîmes Olympique season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ97183075 ↗
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The 2020–21 Nîmes Olympique season was the club's 83rd season in existence and its third consecutive season in the top flight of French football. In addition to the domestic league, Nîmes participated in this season's edition of the Coupe de France. The season covered the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.

Players

First-team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Pre-season and friendlies

Win

Draw

Loss

Competitions

Overview

Ligue 1

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 9 July 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “2020–21 Nîmes Olympique season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.